{"id":1763278,"date":"2022-12-05T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763278"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:48:20","slug":"introducing-fact-checking-the-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/introducing-fact-checking-the-fact-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fintroducing-fact-checking-the-fact-checkers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763278&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>For years the so-called \u201cfact checkers\u201d and their unwavering commitment to distorting the facts have been on my radar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2K5t8SyBO-A3GTwb1kFJ36h1Q0ZC46mi56hJngY9WFhVriXt6LPEi_WvIqx12e_sPvePwwsCL4kuga1pE5F8DwXk0QK4wNFNLAK57tqvg7BiNlpRbU7BahwyLjmrWEjAMkEXbr5RYLMdBDlItwqisex4v2Zyf6-6GKfydDprMoRVGbWTgHcEToegU5UXhg\" width=\"333\" alt=\"image\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve been criticising them for years, in the past year specifically, mostly out of frustration from seeing the most incompetent people in politics be heralded as truth-tellers, I began making an effort to actively document every example of fact-checker incompetence I could find to eventually present and expose comprehensively in a book that is now available for pre-order (on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1637588208\"> Amazon<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Fact-Checking-the-Fact-Checkers\/Matt-Palumbo\/9781637588208\"> Simon and Shuster<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/fact-checking-the-fact-checkers-matt-palumbo\/1142781003?ean=9781637588208\"> Barnes &#038; Noble<\/a>). My goal with the book is two-fold: to expose who the main fact-checkers are, how their purpose is to censor right-wing narratives and uphold the dominant liberal or media narrative, and then create a directory of their most embarrassing errors and other acts of incompetence you wouldn&#8217;t expect from people who get to be the &#8220;final say&#8221; on reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I ended up with over 100,000 words worth of examples of fact-checkers flubbing the facts, often predictably so &#8211; here are just three of the most amusing:<\/p>\n<div><strong>Not All\u2014Just Most: The Case of Democrat Control of America\u2019s Most Violent Cities<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/25\/trump-keeps-claiming-that-most-dangerous-cities-america-are-all-run-by-democrats-they-arent\/\">Philip Bump<\/a> decided to try to fact-check a statement from Donald Trump that \u201cyou hear about certain places like Chicago and you hear about what\u2019s going on in Detroit and other\u2014other cities, all Democrat run. Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of 20. The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bump responded with two charts, with one showing overall violent crimes in America\u2019s 20 most dangerous cities, and pointed out that two of them are run by Independents and one is run by a Republican.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/9z-cGGorIXobXqjhoVRzcelfcHayjsmAM7BSJtesjcWxY2fJvRopKLHcC4tqHOIxnZSpXoTmw8i_gulQVTvPOAypeOM2Vpp8ll61wT-dFKzPQSo72Naj-DCc3-cSiR_-8aj7v2lVOBhCy0xEmOfT0XPguQvdSk_e1NSVK1qm7GprbEv5KBKLElR6GDTYbg\" width=\"618\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those figures are useless however, as crime figures have to be adjusted for population. In a second chart (pictured directly above), Bump\u2019s own data shows that on a per capita basis, none of the twenty most violent cities were run by Republicans (and nineteen, or 95 percent, are run by Democrats).<\/p>\n<p>It also must be noted that there was a zero percent chance that the Mayors of Springfield, Missouri, or San Antonio, Texas, were going to be a Republican or Democrat because both cities have nonpartisan mayoral elections. Despite that, the Post article is titled, \u201cTrump keeps claiming that the most dangerous cities in America are all run by Democrats. They aren\u2019t.\u201d But in 100% of cities with partisan Mayors, they are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redefining Recession<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of the quarterly GDP figures being released in July 2022, the Biden administration launched a mini-campaign to obfuscate what exactly a recession even is.<\/p>\n<p>Conventionally, when there are two consecutive negative quarters of economic growth, the economy is in a \u201ctechnical recession.\u201d This definition is widely used outside the U.S. as well, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/knowledgebank\/why-does-economic-growth-matter\">U.K.\u2019s<\/a> central bank, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insee.fr\/en\/metadonnees\/definition\/c2129\">France\u2019s<\/a> national statistics bureau, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesbank.de\/dynamic\/action\/en\/homepage\/glossary\/729724\/glossary?firstLetter=R&#038;contentId=653260\">Germany\u2019s central bank<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/acts\/F-5.8\/page-1.html\">Canada\u2019s Federal Balanced Budget Act<\/a> defining it as such, and <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/07\/24\/yellen-says-signs-of-u-s-recession-arent-in-sight-when-youre-creating-almost-400000-jobs-a-month\">Australia\u2019s parliament<\/a> using it as an official definition of a recession.<\/p>\n<p>The fact-checkers sided with Team Biden on this one &#8211; but there was no ambiguity whatsoever among them as to what a recession as prior to the Biden administration redefining it.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2022\/jul\/26\/what-exactly-recession-sorting-out-confusing\">Louis Jacobson<\/a> wrote an \u201cexplainer\u201d-style article on what a recession is to defend the White House spin, where he wrote that defining a recession was a \u201cconfusing topic,\u201d and that the \u201ctwo-quarter rule is an informal metric.\u201d In 2015, Jacobson wrote that Donald Trump was wrong to suggest that a negative quarter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2015\/jun\/16\/donald-trump\/donald-trump-says-us-gdp-never-negative-ter\">GDP growth under Obama<\/a> suggested the U.S. economy was in recession because \u201cthe general rule of thumb is that it takes two quarters of negative growth to signal a recession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220423103904\/https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2015\/06\/17\/fact-checking-donald-trumps-presidential-announcement-speech\">Washington Post\u2019s<\/a> Kessler fact-checked the same Donald Trump quote that Jacobson did, which he determined to be false because \u201cafter all, two negative quarters in a row is a standard indicator for an economic recession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s fact-checker<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/cnns-daniel-dale-fact-checks-rnc-conventions-second-night-laughable-to-claim-trump-brought-peace-to-middle-east\"> Daniel Dale<\/a>, who was also fact-checking a similar Trump claim about the Obama economy, said, \u201cThere was no recession in the late Obama term. The economy was growing though growth had slowed in 2016, to 1.7%, there were no quarters of negative growth in 2016. You need two straight for a recession.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><strong>99.992% True Claim From Gov. Ron DeSantis Rated False<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Amid Hurricane Ian slamming Florida, PolitiFact\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/oct\/04\/ron-desantis\/most-floridas-lee-county-wasnt-cone-three-days-hur\">Yacob Reyes<\/a> rated it \u201cmostly false\u201d when Governor Ron DeSantis said that Lee County was not inside the hurricane\u2019s forecast cone.<\/p>\n<p>The justification for the \u201cfalse\u201d rating was that one largely uninhabited barrier island with fewer than two dozen residencies named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/conservative-frustration-fact-checkers-grows-dubious-politifact-articles-one-week\">Cayo Costa<\/a>, which is inside Lee County, falls inside the storm\u2019s path. If we were to assume an average 3 people per residence on Cayo Costa, the island\u2019s population would account for roughly 0.008% of the population of Lee County (760,822) as of the 2020 Census.<\/p>\n<p>But even that would be an overestimate, as Governor DeSantis&#8217; Press Secretary also pointed out that the island was completely uninhabited at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The population of Cayo Costa is not mentioned at any time by Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>Those are just three examples &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Fact-Checking-the-Fact-Checkers\/Matt-Palumbo\/9781637588208\"> for hundreds more, be sure to pre-order the book!<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss The Dan Bongino Show<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years the so-called \u201cfact checkers\u201d and their unwavering commitment to distorting the facts have been on my radar. 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